Captain America Villains and Their First Appearance Comic Book Values

It's strange, considering that he's the symbol of the USA and all, that Captain America's super-villain enemies just aren't as varied or interesting a bunch as Spider-Man's enemies, for example, or Batman's.

Still, a look through Captain America's rogues' gallery is instructive and contains no less than Adolf Hitler himself, one of the few times that a "real" contemporary or historical figure has figured so prominently as a comic-book super-villain.

It should be noted that the timeline of Captain America's fictional life is marked by a 20-year gap in-between the end of WWII and his revival by the Avengers in the early Silver Age, and that there have been several characters other than Steve Rogers who have worn the costume of Captain America.

We won't worry about the villains they dealt with for now.

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QuickList of Captain America Villains

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Of course, Der Fuhrer did not make his first Marvel Universe appearance in a Captain America story or title, but once Cap made the scene in March of 1941, how could pitting the two against each other possibly miss?

In fact, the cover of Captain America Comics #1, Cap's very first appearance, features the iconic image of Hitler reeling from a right hook to the jaw, courtesy of our own Star-Spangled Avenger.

Hitler would appear countless times during WWII, and then in flashbacks during the Silver Age, and would be notably cloned by Arnim Zola to menace Cap again in the 1970s.

The Red Skull debuted with Cap, and the two have been entangled together ever since. Of course, the history is not simple.

Originally, the Skull was George Maxon, owner of an aircraft company, and traitorous to the US. Later, he was revealed to be a pretender by the "real" Red Skull, Johann Schmidt, in Captain America Comics #7.

They battled on and off, and after a long disappearance (punctuated by now only semi-canonical mid-1950s appearances), the Johann Schmidt version of the Red Skull was brought back to stay in the Silver Age, in Tales of Suspense #79, in July, 1966.

He has no super-powers, but is an evil genius. At one point, his mind ended up in a clone of Steve Rogers' body.

The child of Prussian nobility, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker was introduced in the WWII-chronology Silver Age Nick Fury comic, but soon made the leap into the present time when he again began battling Fury in his new guise as the Supreme HYDRA.

His first encounter with Cap happened, confusingly, in The Invaders #30, set in WWII but published in July of 1978. Later, he would become one of Cap's main nemeses, in various incarnations and reincarnations.

Strucker wears the Satan Claw, which gives him super-strength and allows him to shock his enemies, and carries the deathspore virus, which can kill with only a touch.

Baron Henrich Zemo is responsible for Captain America's transition from WWII to the Silver Age.

When the Avengers find Cap frozen in the Atlantic and revived him from suspended animation, we learn that it was Zemo who (apparently) killed Cap's sidekick, Bucky Barnes and caused Cap's suspended animation after he tied them both to an experimental plane that was rigged to explode.

Zemo was seeking revenge against Cap for the incident, which glued his hood to his face permanently.

Eventually killed by a landslide he caused himself, Zemo's son, Helmut, became the next Baron and another enemy for Captain America.

Created by HYDRA, Modok (or MODOK) was George Tarleton, scientist for A.I.M., who became the subject of an experiment that vastly increased his mental powers and the size of his head, to the extent that his body could no longer support his grossly enlarged cranium.

Originally, he was MODOC, or "Mental Organism Designed Only for Computing," but after he rebelled against his A.I.M. masters, he rechistened himself "Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing," becoming the head of A.I.M. and emerging as a major super-villain.

He battled Cap multiple times throughout the Silver and Bronze Ages, and afterwards in various incarnations.

Few characters have been revived and retconned as often as Bucky, and in this iteration, we learn that Bucky did not die in the airplane explosion, but rather ended up losing an arm and going into a similar state of suspended animation to Cap's.

He was found by the Soviets years later, given an artificial arm, and brainwashed into a new life as an assassin.

With the help of his old pal Steve Rogers, Bucky's brainwashing is reversed, and he becomes a force for good.